"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."

"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."

"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

"It is a essential truth that a life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set."

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The true measure of a man is shadows are only cast by the presence of light."